Re: [XP] The nature of executive "pushback" to agile technologies?

... What is the agile team doing that is leading to the bosses behaviour? Chris. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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, Mar 1 8:15 PM

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> I'm seeing this at the moment with a client, the team leader level
> management is keen to try XP, but their bosses fear loss of control and
> feed this up, suitably disguised, to the CIO. Unfortunately the agile
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What is the agile team doing that is leading to the bosses behaviour?

Chris.

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Steve Ropa

Oh, darn. I was just thinking I should create a rule that automatically deletes anything that comes in! So close! Oh well. Sorting your email as it comes

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, Mar 6 1:25 PM

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Oh, darn. I was just thinking I should create a rule that automatically
deletes anything that comes in! So close! Oh well.

Sorting your email as it comes in is an excellent way to triage what is
important, what can wait, and what just doesn't matter.

One approach I learned as a stockbroker (albeit with paper instead of email)
is to automatically sort everything that comes in into its proper folder if
it has one. Anything left in the inbox can wait until you have taken care
of all of the sorted mail. Then, once a month, just wholesale delete
everything in the main inbox. If it wasn't categorizable (not a real word),
and you hadn't already acted on it, it couldn't have been important anyway.

Anyway, I can tell that I currently have enough slack, because I can spend
time arguing the merits of an empty inbox..

It depends on how you want to set up your workflow,
and where the bottlenecks occur.

One insight I've gotten from GTD is that, if you leave
stuff in your inbox, it's got two rather bad effects.
First, you go over it multiple times deciding whether
it's something to be dealt with now, and second, it
isn't where you need it when you're ready to deal
with a project.

That doesn't mean you clean out your mail client!
If you want to hold mail related to a project on the
client in a separate folder until you're ready to deal
with it, that's fine. They have to be easily locatable
from the central point of the project, and out of the
way until then.